seek

1. 1.

   the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk

   Broadermovement

   computer science

Other forms of seek

plural

seeks·

past tense or participle

sought

present participle

seeking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about seek

What does seek mean?

seek means "try to get or reach". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seek?

seek has 1 syllable: seek. In IPA it is /ˈsik/.

What is another word for seek?

Close synonyms include search, look for, try, attempt, essay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seek a common word?

seek is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with seek?

2 words rhyme with seek. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.